1 thing better players do that higher handicaps should emulate

When you’re a excessive handicapper trying to get better, generally it seems like each tip is truthful sport. Slice fixes, placing drills, mental-game strategies? We’re all ears!

But in keeping with one instructor, there’s one thing easy that better players do that could be a simple add for higher handicaps of their quest to get better — and it doesn’t even contain altering their swing.

“The better players that I teach have a really good pre-shot routine, and they have something they do consistently, and they execute it every single time,” says Gia Liwski, a instructing skilled at Fiddlers Elbow CC in a Bedminster, N.J. “A lot of newer players or players who aren’t performing as well as they want to be, if they could create something very consistent and very reliable that they can rehearse and train, then once they get on the golf course, they’re going to be able to perform it.”

So why is it that excessive handicappers appear to wrestle with this? Liwski says it could be that they merely don’t understand how priceless it may be to train that consistency over each shot, particularly when they could be combating info overload in different areas of their sport in an effort to enhance.

“A pre-shot routine is something that you can work on separately,” Liwski says. “So maybe one day, you work on fundamentals, and another day you focus solely on pre-shot routine: how you approach the ball, and going through the motions before you hit your shot. Make sure it’s something reliable that you can do every single time you’re on the golf course.”

You heard it right here first, excessive handicappers. Give a constant pre-shot routine a attempt, and watch your sport enhance.

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